International Multispecialty Consensus on How to Evaluate Ultrasound Competence: A Delphi Consensus Survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Tolsgaard, Martin G ^a   Todsen, Tobias ^a   Sorensen, Jette L ^a   Ringsted, Charlotte ^b   Lorentzen, Torben ^c   Ottesen, Bent ^a   Tabor, Ann ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELPHI STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LIKERT SCALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND;

CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MEDICINE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84874566247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057687     Document Type: Article

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